> 
> I'm not sure if this is related, but how are you doing the install? 
> Just doing a rpm -Uvh, or yum, apt, or which program?

rpm -Uvh [a very long list]


> No, I don't think changing the kernel make a difference.
> What really does make a difference is if you change your grub.conf by 
> hand.  Do you do that at any time?  Or do any of the rpm's that you 
> install do that?

Well, the kernel-smp rpm would do that. As I recall, the yum upgrade
does change grub.conf as the kernel gets updated and I certainly tried
running grub-install after the yum upgrade and all was well.

John